Gadgets and Tech in the Philippines

Google has added new features to its Google Photos application .  The new features were announced during the Google I/O developer's conference last May 17.  Google Photos, an already impressive photo storage and organizer application is gaining ground against similar applications, most notably, Apple's Photos App. The first new feature announced is called Suggested Sharing .  With suggested sharing, Google Photos is able to suggest who you could share particular photos with.  Google used machine learning technology for this feature.  Suggested sharing is made possible by gathering your previous photo shares and comes out in a new tab in the app called "New Shares". Another new feature of the Google Photos application is called Shared Libraries .  With Shared Libraries, Google Photos can automatically share photos in particular categories with your friends and family.  The recipient of the shared library will be able to select photos which th...

Amazon has announced the release of it's latest Alexa powered device, now with a screen. The introduction given by Amazon to it's new device is "Now Alexa can show you things", emphasizing the new echo device with a screen called the Echo Show. As the introduction suggests, Alexa will now be able to show you things, from showing YouTube videos to showing photos to making video calls. The Echo Show will also be able to make hands-free video calls to other users of Echo show or the Alexa App and make voice calls to Echo or Echo dot users. Lyrics of songs can also be shown in Echo show if you are subscribed to Amazon music. The Dolby speakers of the Echo Show is advertised to have crisp vocals and extended bass response. The Echo show has eight microphones and is equipped with beam-forming technology, and noise cancellation, so the Echo Show will hear you from any direction, and even while music is playing.  This is a good improvement over the Echo dot wh...